Field And Stream

Magazine

Field & Stream (F&S for short) is a magazine featuring fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities in the United States. Together with Sports Afield and Outdoor Life, it is considered[by whom?] one of the Big Three of American outdoor publishing. Source

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The 28 gauge patterns efficiently because its ¾-ounce payload is “square” (inasmuch as anything packed in a cylinder can be square), according to conventional shotgunning wisdom. Theoretically, the 28’s squareness results in less-deformed shot, because as the payload accelerates, there’s less weight on the pellets at the bottom of the stack, so they stay round and pattern well. Except it isn’t square. “Square” means the shot column inside the hull is as wide as it is tall.

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A reader asks that I do a post on brass. Glad to. If cartridge brass didn’t exist, it would have to be invented. As a case material, it combines strength, elasticity, and reasonably low price. The only other option I know of is steel, which is used only in military ammo, and only by depressing Eastern-bloc countries, and must be given a “wash” of copper to keep from rusting. So, brass it is. Cartridge cases are turned out in enormous numbers by means of forming dies and punches.

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In April 2016, I lucked into an early, sneak peek at Johnny Morris’s Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium. Back then, there was still construction going on and some of the exhibits had not yet opened, but what I did see was simply amazing. For starters, the whitetail and other big-game trophies on display were jaw-dropping—absolute giants. But what was most impressive was attention to detail in the taxidermy and dioramas.

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All the world is a hunt camp. Or at least that was the feeling as I walked the aisles at the Safari Club International’s annual convention, held earlier this month in Las Vegas. Mongol outfitters with brochures on hunting with eagles sat two stalls down from a fly-in operation specializing in Yukon moose. There were layout hunts for graylag geese in Iceland, mountain hunts for snow sheep in Kamchatka, and more African adventures than you can shake an assegai at.

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We have a tendency to use words to death, to the point where they lose their meaning, and foremost among these is iconic. Today, if something works reasonably well and keeps our attention for 15 minutes, it’s “iconic.” The dictionary says iconic means “widely known and acknowledged, especially for distinctive excellence.” In the case of hunting and fishing equipment, it also means gear that’s proved itself not over a few years but over half a century or so.

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Some Blast from the Past entries are not so much entries as they are cries for help. Today we have one such example. Henry writes: “Here is my American Gun Co. 12 gauge shotgun. It has 2 ¾-inch chambers, and cylinder chokes, I think. I would appreciate any information you may have.”This one is a Crescent Arms Model O. It might actually have 2 ½-inch chambers; a lot of these guns did.

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Every time you pull the trigger, you send a 5,000-degree flame streaking up your barrel. It lasts only a millisecond or so, but it melts your barrel a little bit each time you shoot. And it can seriously affect your rifle’s accuracy and its point of impact. Barrels that are button-rifled or hammer-forged (which is just about all barrels nowadays) have stresses introduced by these processes.

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On my very first safari, I asked my PH, Ian Manning, to rank the shooting ability of his clients by nationality. Tops on the list were Americans and Germans. “The very best,” said Ian, “are the Americans. There’s nothing as good as a really first-rate American rifleman. And by the way, your rifle looks like it was built for a French nobleman.” This last is the worst insult I’ve ever taken and walked away from. Two decades later, I asked the same thing of a PH named Clive Perkins.

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Mom is dying. Death comes to us all, of course, but has a terrible specificity when it knocks at your door. Mom is 90, has had a good life, is in hospice care at home, and will die with my sister, Liv, and me close at hand. That’s as good as it gets these days. The body is stubborn. It gives up the habit of living reluctantly. Mom's mouth hangs slack and open, her eyes roll up toward the ceiling. If she’s looking at anything, it’s something invisible to us. To me, her life appears to be over.

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They say there’s a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity, but I’ve never seen it. I’ve already whiffed twice on big Kansas bucks. So when Steve Stucky, son of my old friend Richard, invites me to Pretty Prairie for early muzzleloader, I jump on it. Now, talking with him outside his farmhouse, he wants to show me the rack of the buck his oldest son, Carter, 9, took last year.

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